[1] This project received the Kalpataru Award in 2009, Indonesia's highest environmental honor.
Approximately 30% of Wehea has been selectively logged, with the last activity taking place in 1996.
Biodiversity studies in Wehea by Integrated Conservation and The Nature Conservancy found it is home to endangered species such as the Bornean orangutan, Sunda clouded leopard and sun bear.
[4] In 2011, a team of scientists re-discovered the endangered Miller's Grizzled Langur in Wehea Forest.
[5][6][7] Research on the ecology of the Sunda clouded leopard, orangutan and other mammals has been done by Brent Loken.